Mom the chemistry professor: personal accounts and advice from chemistry professors who are mothers

Renée Cole; Cecilia Marzabadi; Gail Webster; Kimberly Woznack

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06044-6

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Mom the chemistry professor: personal accounts and advice from chemistry professors who are mothers

Renée Cole, Cecilia Marzabadi, Gail Webster and Kimberly Woznack

Springer International Publishing

2014

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06044-6

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Abstract

When is the "right" time? How can I meet the demands of a professorship whilst caring for a young family? Choosing to become a mother has a profound effect on the career path of women holding academic positions, especially in the physical sciences. Yet many women successfully manage to do both. In this book 15 inspirational personal accounts describe the challenges and rewards of combining motherhood with an academic career in chemistry. The authors are all women at different stages of their career and from a range of colleges, in tenure and non-tenure track positions. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry, these contributions serve as examples for women considering a career in academia but worry about how this can be balanced with other important aspects of life. The authors describe how they overcame particular challenges, but also highlight aspects of the systems which could be improved to accommodate women academics and particularly encourage more women to take on academic positions in the sciences

Chemistry

Chemistry and Materials Science

Chemistry teachers

Chemistry/Food Science, general

Gender Studies

General

Job Careers in Science and Engineering

SCIENCE

Women college teachers

Women in chemistry

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Title: Subtitle: Mom the chemistry professor: personal accounts and advice from chemistry professors who are mothers
Creators: Renée Cole (Editor) - Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
Cecilia Marzabadi (Editor) - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Seton Hal University
Gail Webster (Editor) - Department of Chemistry, Guilford College
Kimberly Woznack (Editor) - Department of Chemistry and Physics, California University of Pennsylvania
Resource Type: Edited book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06044-6
ISBN: 9783319060446; 9783319060439; 3319060430; 3319060449
eISBN: 9783319060446; 3319060449
Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Cham
Number of pages: x, 209 pages
Language: English
Date published: 2014
Academic Unit: Chemistry
Record Identifier: 9984217458602771

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